Posted by stjames on January 28, 2001, at 3:51:44
In reply to Re:Celexa and Ecstasy-No myth but denial, posted by PatJ. on January 27, 2001, at 14:10:25
Governor's Drug Policy Advisory Group - Report and Recommendations is at http://www.governor.state.nm.us/drug_policy/drug_policy.htm
It seems to have sifted thru the disinformation about pot and recomended the state stop wasting
money on busting pot smokers, acnowlaging that the "war on Drugs" failed a long time ago and these monies would be better spent on treatment.
All of this after hearing from doctors, lawyers, researchers, the DEA, ect.As to 1 joint a day causing cancer; many can quote the first line from a study but never read any further. All studies on pot are done with gov. pot, which has the lowest THC content of
all pot. No one would pay for it. Of course, to acheive a high one would have to smoke much more of it, the studies are based on THC dose. Low THC and high THC pot have the same amount of cancer causing tars, ect. Of course the studies show a higher cancer causing potential ! You have to smoke tons of the gov. pot to get high. All the while taking in smoke and cancer causing by products. If you would compare gov pot to street pot the amount of pot needed to get high is orders of magnitude less as is the cancer potential. Also the studies use "joints" which produce the higest cancer causing by products.
Pipes and bongs are better. What you are not told
is that by vaporization, all by products are burned off, thus no smoke, particulate matter, no cancer causing products and only THC (and other canibinoids). Vaporzation equipment is illegal, of course, which is too bad. Those who can get medical pot legally many times have to use gov pot, thus the gov is exposing them to health risks
due to the amount of pot they must consume to achive desired effects. Why smoke a bag of gov pot when a half bowl of "Northern Lights" will do the trick, with less smoke and nasty by products ? Why make smoking equipment that takes the helth risks away totally ? Why ? So they can fund studies that prove it is "evil weed". The health risks of 1 beer are far greater than a joint.rant, rant, rant. I am not saying pot is totaly harmless for everyone or that there are soem who should not smoke it or have trouble with it. I am saying read these studies instead of quoteing "what you heard" and then read other respected researchers crits of them. The gov. studies use methodology so flawed even a high school student can blow holes in them. You can start at http://www.maps.org
James
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